Ask any elementary school teacher what they see on a typical day and you'll get a similar

answer.

Kids shout, play, and run around.

But that's not what art therapist and teacher Oksana Vakil saw when she met her students

for the first time.

I saw just empty eyes.

Vakil is one of three principles at Poland's Ukrainian school in Warsaw.

Nearly three months ago when Russia attacked Ukraine, people began flooding into Poland.

A group of Ukrainian educators used money from nonprofit organizations to open a school

for refugees in just 24 days.

When Vakil escaped the war, she planned to keep going west to Cyprus where she has relatives.

Then the founders of this school contacted her and her plans changed.

They called me and told that they need help and they have got an idea to make Ukrainian

school.

She thought she'd stay a month and more than two months later she is still in Warsaw.

Helping traumatized kids come out of their shells.

I teach my English through creative movement all the time.

So I get used to move to see the reflection of bodies.

And I didn't see the reflection of bodies.

They were just sitting looking in one and this is the first grade.

When you see the first grade, whose nature is to move, to shake and not to freeze and

you see that they are frozen.

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